Remediation of Rwanda : harmony and punishment in grassroots legal forums /

Kristin Conner Doughty examines how Rwandans navigated the combination of harmony and punishment in grassroots courts purportedly designed to rebuild the social fabric in the wake of the 1994 genocide. Postgenocide Rwandan officials developed new local courts ostensibly modeled on traditional practi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Doughty, Kristin (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
Colección:Ethnography of political violence.
Temas:
Since 1994
Rwandans > Social conditions.
Gacaca justice system > Rwanda.
Postwar reconstruction > Law and legislation > Rwanda.
Peace-building > Rwanda.
Transitional justice > Rwanda.
Restorative justice > Rwanda.
Rwandais > Conditions sociales.
Système judiciaire gacaca > Rwanda.
Consolidation de la paix > Rwanda.
Justice transitionnelle > Rwanda.
Justice réparatrice > Rwanda.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Human Rights.
Gacaca justice system
Peace-building
Postwar reconstruction > Law and legislation
Restorative justice
Transitional justice
Rwanda > History > 1994-
Rwanda > Histoire > 1994-
Rwanda
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction. Harmony Legal Models and the Architecture of Social Repair
  • Chapter 1. Silencing the Past: Producing History and the Politics of Memory
  • Chapter 2. Escaping Dichotomies: Grassroots Law in Historical and Global Context
  • Chapter 3. Gacaca Days and Genocide Citizenship
  • Chapter 4. Comite y'Abunzi: Politics and Poetics of the Ordinary
  • Chapter 5. The Legal Aid Clinic: Mediation as Thick Description
  • Chapter 6. Improvising Authority: Lay Judges as Intermediaries
  • Conclusion. Legal Architectures of Social Repair
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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